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What Wouldst Thou Have Me to Do?

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What wouldst Thou have me to do, Lord? Show me my task for today

Author: Edith G. Cherry
Tune: [What wouldst Thou have me to do] (Mountain)
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Edith G. Cherry

Edith Adeline Gilling Cherry United Kingdom 1872-1897. Born at Plymouth, Devon, she was disabled from the age of 16 months by poliomyelitis and walked with crutches. The death of her only sister, who died at age 4, when Edith was age 6, devastated her. She had a gift for poetry and wrote much before the age of 15. She had friends who helped her supporting Sunday school work and the YWCA. She was a gifted illustrator of cards and porcelain which she neatly embellished with flower or fern sprays and Bible texts. Of her verse, she said, they were given to me and all I had to do was write them down. Some of her poems appeared in print in the periodical “The Christian”. She had two strokes in early life, and a 3rd, at age 25, took he… Go to person page >

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First Line: What wouldst Thou have me to do, Lord? Show me my task for today
Title: What Wouldst Thou Have Me to Do?
Author: Edith G. Cherry
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[What wouldst Thou have me to do] (Mountain)Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[What wouldst Thou have me to do] (Mountain)


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